Bloque Nacionalista Galego

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The Bloque Nacionalista Galego ( BNG , Spanish : Bloque Nacionalista Gallego , German: Galicischer Nationalistischer Block ) is a political party founded in Spain in 1982 . It is a group of left nationalist parties in Galicia ; she defends the Galician language . As a regional organization, it advocates the autonomy of the Galicia region and was part of the Galician government coalition until 2009.

The gradual rise of the party in the 1980s and 1990s culminated in the Galician regional elections of 1997, in which it became the second largest party after the Conservative People's Party (PP) and ahead of the Galician Socialists (PSdeG, with 24.8% of the vote ). a sub-organization of the PSOE ).

Since then, however, the party has repeatedly lost votes; in the regional elections in 2005 it only achieved 13 seats (19% of the vote). However, in the same elections, the PP lost the absolute majority it had previously had. This enabled the formation of a coalition government between PSdeG-PSOE and BNG. In the regional elections on March 1, 2009, the BNG only got 16% of the vote and 12 seats, while the PP won back an absolute majority.

In the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2004 , 2008 and 2011 , the BNG won two seats in the Spanish Congress of Representatives . In the 2015 election, the BNG lost both of its mandates. At the European level, it is part of the European Free Alliance (EFA), an alliance of regionalist parties. As part of this alliance, she is running for European elections together with other Spanish parties - Eusko Alkartasuna (EA), Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), Partido Andalucista and Chunta Aragonesista . In the European Parliament , the BNG had one member in the 1999-2004 electoral period ; In the 2004 European elections , the Spanish EFA list connection reached only one seat in the European Parliament, which was initially occupied by Bernat Joan i Marí (ERC), and from June 2007 by Mikel Irujo (EA).

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